Northern Ireland: “Welcome to hell, lads!”

  • notsure@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    …i am just asking questions, but in these places, were the intended consequences reached?..I truly do not wish to be provocative, but because there are so few examples, did they achieve their said goals?..were the goals incremental through extraordinairy circumstance, or do these same conditions exist in places where this particular “terrorism” was invoke?..

    god that’s stupid, sorry

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      11 hours ago

      The Basque Country still belongs to Spain and Northern Ireland still belongs to the UK, so… no, I guess?

      I don’t know enough about that cluster in the Balkans to even speculate on it.

      god that’s stupid, sorry

      Asking if terrorism works isn’t a stupid question. It’s a very impolite question (from the perspective of people in power), and maybe even heartless, but not stupid.

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        For the Northern Ireland one it’s a particularly messy question to answer because the attacks were not all working towards the same goal. Pro-UK paramilitaries were a huge part of the Troubles, it wasn’t just pro-independence paramilitaries vs the British army